Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-08-18
A GREAT GAME.
Moline and Rock Island Clubs Yes
ferdaY-.IThe RroMns successful.

such was the Contest Between the
Moline and Rock Island Clubs Yes
terday--IThe Browns Successful.
One of the finest ball games ever wit
messed in Rock Island was the third OF
the series between Moline and Rock isis
and for the championship of the county,
played at the Rock Island park yesterday
afternoon. There was large attend
ence, and the sun peeped through a haze
that tempered its rays.
Rock Island having won the two pre-
vious games, it was generally expected
that if Moline's turn came at all it would
come Yesterday. And they came down
determined to wiz. having engaged the ST
Louis battery which the Dubuques i'm
ported to play Rock Island. For the
home team kid" Browner pitched and
Crowley caught, and they did very effee>
tive work. The game throughout was
marked by sharp and brilliant playing
and was finished in an hour and forty
minutes. Feeney, of Moline, was um>
pre- and while his ruling could be criti-
cized in several instances he seemed to
act impsr'islly.
In the first inning Scherer was the only
Rock Islander to reach first. and after two
were out he was caught trying to reach
third In the next Baker got as far as
second. when Tolliver sent corker for
three bags. When the second man was
put out, Tolliver thought it finished the
inning and proceeded to walk in. Before
he could be told differently he was half
way between the bases, but as luck
would have it, the catcher muffied the
ball and he scored amid great applause
Scherer ard Crowley were both on
bases in the third, when Baker sent d
sky>scraper in left center field. Everyone
thought it was safe, but the left fielder
was running for il, and he held it. There
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ley could score. Rock Island was white
washed in the next five innings. although
Olsen scored all right enough in the sew
enth, but the umpire called him out for
not touching the home plate.
The Dubuques scored one in the first
Two innings, which made the game a tie
from the second to the eighth innings,
when Moline scored three runs, mostly
by errors, thus winning the game. Scher
er made an elegant left handed catch in
the first inning. throwing to TolliveI
and making double play. Rispen made
two good catches in the third, one short
fly which he caught falling fat and an.
other thrown By Tolliver, which hf
scooped from the ground Grimes, Ris-
pen and TOlliveI made fine double play
in the fourth II looked as though
Grimes lost the game in the eighth. b
catching short fiy, which he mutfed, h'
could have made double play at third
aud he again made costly error by let
ting ball pass at short After Moliu
had scored three talhes, with two men ol
bases, and it looked as though they woult
get in a least as many more, the RocI
Islands made one of the cleverest play
ever seen ON ball ground. Olsen Jus
managed TO reach fly to left field, An
rs quick as Il ash he threw it to Schere
At second, the latter sending 1t TO Toll
yer, thus retiring the two basemen vii
had started to score on The bit. But
Mas no use, only 10 keep down the sc"r
and Moline did not 90 to the bat ID III
ninth inning, because she had the gan
won. The score by innings was as 70
lows
, 8 .
Moline Browns 49, / 0 =
Rock Islaud.....-. . . y o o.
The next two games of the series vi
be played at Moline the first on Saturda